The Ominous Star River

In a chaotic age, there is no righteous path; elixir fire corrupts the hearts of men. This is a long-form work blending suspenseful power struggles, hardcore wuxia, fateful ambiguity, and an ensemble cast of the jianghu. In the final years of a dynasty, the imperial family descends into madness seeking immortality, while the jianghu abandons martial arts to chase elixirs, and moral principles collapse. Seeking immortal herbs, hunting exotic beasts, forging elixir furnaces, and seizing elixir recipes to create peerless pills become the ultimate pursuits of every major sect. A buried "Great War of Exterminating Ghosts" from twenty years ago becomes the root disease of the entire martial world. This grand game of the jianghu uses greed as its pieces and hypocrisy as its blade. The so-called righteous sects hide every filthy sin; the so-called evil ghost cults are all wronged souls of a chaotic age. The youth Zhao Xinghe enters the world bearing a spectral shadow, appearing at once as "the evil ghost in the eyes of the world." He is unable to defend himself and is pushed step by step into the game, becoming entangled with an immortal undying brother, a hidden sword immortal, an heir of the former dynasty, and a vengeful demon monk into a shocking net spanning twenty years. The great sects ascend to the top through lies, the foolish are manipulated into selling their lives, the avengers lie low and set their plans, and no one speaks of chivalry anymore—only greed, delusion, and slaughter remain. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Ominous Star River — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠